Why are some Spanish regions so much more efficient than others?

Jaume Puig () and Jaime Pinilla
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Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: This article investigates the main sources of heterogeneity in regional efficiency. We estimate a translog stochastic frontier production function in the analysis of Spanish regions in the period 1964-1996, to attempt to measure and explain changes in technical efficiency. Our results confirm that regional inefficiency is significantly and positively correlated with the ratio of public capital to private capital. The proportion of service industries in the private capital, the proportion of public capital devoted to transport infrastructures, the industrial specialization, and spatial spillovers from transport infrastructures in neighbouring regions significantly contributed to improve regional efficiency.

Keywords: Regional efficiency; Regional spillovers; Human capital; Public capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 H54 R11 R53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-02
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